On Monday, SpaceX Ilona Mask launched four private astronauts led by Entrepreneur Chunet Van, reports Reuters. The crew went along the unique trajectory from the pole to the pole of the earth - earlier not a single person flew along it. Van, the Maltese investor of Chinese origin, the founder of the Bitcoin mining company, is the sponsor and commander of the SpaceX mission called Fram2.

One of the topics of the Kremlin’s negotiations with the Donald Trump team was the question of the redemption of Alaska, sources close to negotiations on both sides report. It is assumed that the United States can receive part of the amount (about $ 200 billion) from previously frozen Russian reserves, the total transaction value is not yet clear, but there will be many times more, sources report.

US President Donald Trump said the “DOGE Department of Efficiency” at a certain moment will cease its activities, since Elon Musk is available as a special government employee for only 130 days, CNN writes . Trump noted that Musk, heading Tesla and SpaceX, will have to return to management of his companies, although the president would like to keep him as long as possible, highly appreciating his “intellect and work done”.

Investigations Sergey Yezhov 1 April 2025 Many members of the federal government have close ties with Russian billionaires - this is evidenced by The Inisder of the base of flights and crossing the border. The ministers, together with the oligarchs, travel abroad (including resorts), and sometimes use their private aircraft.

The head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIPI) and a participant in Russian-American negotiations, Kirill Dmitriev, owns real estate in the amount of about 7.5 billion rubles. Among his assets is the villa on the Cote d'Azur, an apartment in Courchevel, two apartments in Dubai and several apartments in Russia, FBK found out . Among the Russian assets of Dmitriev are several premises in Moscow City and five apartments in Moscow.

Germany for the first time since the Second World War has been deploying its troops abroad, reports Politico. Five thousand military personnel in the armored brigade will be sent to Lithuania to strengthen the eastern flank of NATO. According to the German group of military lobbyists, the recently created 45th armored brigade officially began service after the ceremony under Vilnius.

The Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu was questioned on the evening of March 31 to investigators as a witness in the case of lobbying for the interests of Qatar, known as the “Qatargate”. That same evening, two of his assistants, Jonathan Urich and Eli Feldstein, were arrested. Investigators from the department for the investigation of especially serious crimes interrogated the Prime Minister of Israel right in his office in Jerusalem.

In only three months, the Russian military had dropped more than 10 thousand cabbage to Ukraine. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. “The blows of enemy aviation on Ukrainian settlements and the positions of defense forces do not stop. In March, aviation of the Russian army increased the use of controlled aviation bombs - about 4800 units (in February - 3370). In just three months of 2025, the enemy tactical aircraft dropped 10,577 cabbages.

Indian oil refineries urgently began to look for new oil suppliers on a roar after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose additional sanctions against the Russian Federation. This caused concerns about possible interruptions in Russian oil supplies, Bloomberg reports . State companies Bharat Petroleum and Hindustan Petroleum are looking for additional deliveries to May from the regions of the Middle East, North Sea and Mediterranean, sources familiar with the situation said.

Serbia and Hungary signed a document on strategic cooperation in the field of defense, according to Euronews. The agreement was seized with signatures by the Minister of Defense of Serbia Bratislav Hashich and his Hungarian colleague Krishtof Salai-Bobrovnitsky in the presence of Serbia President Alexander Vucic. The document specifies the strategic agreement on cooperation in the field of defense, achieved in 2023.

In a letter, which was directed by Steinmeyer’s office in the name of assistant Ilham Aliyev Hikmet Gadzhiev and published by the Azerbaijani media, it is said that “the post was published by technical error” and that “as soon as the error was discovered, the post was immediately removed.” A copy of the letter was also posted on Twitter by the German human rights activist Dustin Hoffman, the head of the office and political adviser to the German deputy of the European Parliament Martin

The prosecutor's office of Milan began an investigation of the alleged espionage for political or military purposes, possibly associated with terrorism, after repeated flights of unidentified drones over the United Research Center of the European Commission (JRC) in the Sea in northern Italy. It is reported by EuiRactiv.

On April 1, the European Parliament held a vote in Strasbourg, as a result of which the inviolability of Peter Skorny, the German deputy of the Czech origin from the ultra -right group of Europe of the Sovereign Nations and a member of the Alternative for Germany (ADG) group, reports DW.

US Prosecutor General Pam Bondi instructed the federal prosecutors to achieve the death penalty for 26-year-old Luigi Manjone, accused of the murder of the General Director of the Unitedhealthcare Insurance Company Brian Thompson. This was reported on the website of the US Ministry of Justice. Thompson was shot dead on December 4, 2024 near the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel. The investigation believes that Manjone’s hostility to the American medical insurance system was the motive of the crime.

The Belgian Docville festival excluded the documentary “Russians in the war” from the show, shot by journalistic Anastasia Trofimova. They decided to abandon the show of the tape after calling for this Embassy of Ukraine in the country. As stated in the statement of the organizing committee of the festival, the film was included in the program, because it was supposed to “show the meaninglessness of Russian violence”: “We want to offer a wide view of the world.